Completed Master's Course in Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University

Graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering, Nagoya University

President, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)

Vice President, Director General of Technology Management, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) (March 2015 resigned)

Managing Executive Officer, Director General of Technology Management, MHI

Executive Officer, Deputy Director General of Technology Headquarters, MHI

Deputy Director General of Technology Headquarters, doubled as Director of Hiroshima Research Center, MHI

Director, Takasago Research Center, Technology Headquarters, MHI

Takasago Research Center, Technology Headquarters, MHI

Graduate of Tokyo University (Faculty of Law)

Join National Police Agency

Master of Laws at New York University School of Law

Director of Second Investigation Division, Criminal Investigation Department, Saitama Prefectural Police Headquarters

First Secretary, Embassy of Japan in France

Deputy Director of Personnel Division, Commissioner General's Secretariat, National Police Agency

Deputy Director of Foreign Affairs Division, Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Department, Security Bureau, National Police Agency

Deputy Director of Security Planning Division, Security Bureau, National Police Agency

Deputy Director of General Affairs Division, Commissioner General's Secretariat, National Police Agency

Director of First Security Division, Security Bureau, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department

Director of the Public Relations Office, General Affairs Division, Commissioner General's Secretariat, National Police Agency

Counsellor to Office of Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary (National Security and Crisis Management), Cabinet Secretariat

Counsellor, Commissioner General's Secretariat, National Police Agency

Executive Director of Security, The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games

Kate Glynn is a foreign affairs specialist with DOE/NNSA's Office of International Nuclear Safeguards. In addition to leading the Safeguards Human Capital Development program, she also manages the annual United States Additional Protocol declaration process, and the International Nuclear Safeguards Engagement program's Sub-Saharan Africa portfolio. Under Kate's management, the Human Capital Development program works with numerous universities and national laboratories, funding safeguards related PhD research, internships and post-doctoral fellowships, and developing safeguards education and training courses for both students and professionals. More recently, the HCD program has also focused on safeguards knowledge management, to ensure critical knowledge is passed from one generation of safeguards professionals to the next.

Kate holds a Bachelor of Science from the United States Naval Academy, and a Master's in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Her hometown is Yokohama, Japan.

Mr. Yosuke Naoi is the Director of the Integrated Support Center for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security (ISCN) which was established in December 2010 in Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) following Japan's national statement at the Nuclear Security Summit, April 2010. He had been involved in heavy water reactor development projects for a total of 20 years since 1983 as a station chemist and a safety analyst. He has twenty years' operation experience with NPP so he is very familiar with the NPP itself including safety and physical protection features.

From 1998 to 2000, he was on loan to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan as a technical adviser for the KEDO (Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization) project. In addition, he had been assigned for the research on the mechanism of assurance of fuel supply based on the contract with Cabinet Assistance Office of Government of Japan for three years since 2005. He was also engaged in preparations for the establishment of ISCN. He worked for designing the physical protection training field and virtual reality training system from 2010 to 2012.

He is a chair of international network for nuclear security training and support center, 2016-2018. His past experiences vary from very technical tasks to diplomatic negotiations but also managerial and administrative tasks at ISCN.

Dr. Hori is a Deputy Director of ISCN/JAEA since April 2016. He is overseeing R&D programs related to nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear security, nonproliferation policy research and CTBT international monitoring activities in JAEA.

Dr. Hori had been working for International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as Senior Safeguards Analyst and Acting Section Head of Concepts and Approaches Section of Safeguards Department from December 2010 to February 2016. Before he joined the IAEA, he had been working for JAEA, JNC and PNC (former organization of JAEA) engaged in nuclear fuel cycle R&D and non-proliferation and safeguards R&D for more than 20 years. He served as special assistant on nuclear energy in Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Japanese Embassy in Washington D.C. from 1989 to 1993.

Dr. Hori has PhD in engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai-shi, Japan.

Kamel Abbas defended his PhD in nuclear physics in 1992 in Pierre & Marie Curie University (Paris) on the utilisation of Synchrotron Radiation for trace element analysis via X-ray fluorescence. After his PhD, Kamel has worked at the French Nuclear Energy Commission (CEA, Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique) in the nuclear fuel cycle division.

He joined the Joint Research Center, European Commission in 1995 first working in Karlsruhe, Germany then moved in 1998 to JRC Ispra, Italy where he is working presently. In his R&D activities, he dealt with several nuclear physics topics such as nuclear security and safeguards, non-destructive assay of nuclear material and production of radioisotopes using charged particles accelerators for R&D applications including nuclear medicine. Currently, he is investigating application of imaging techniques for nuclear decommissioning and waste management such as tomography with both gamma or muon radiations. Extended to his R&D tasks duties in international cooperation in the nuclear security through the JRC support to other EC partner DGs such as DG DEVCO and DG ENER and also international organisations such as IAEA, JAEA, DoE in both nuclear security and safeguards.

Birth place; Tokyo

Graduated from National Defense Academy (Applied Chemistry)

PhD. Doctoral fellow at Tsukuba University

Company Commander, 5thInfantry Regiment (Aomori)

UN Chemical Weapons Inspector (UNSCOM #20)

Defense Attaché/ Embassy of Japan in the Netherland
1st Secretary/ Japanese Delegation for Chemical Weapons Convention

Director of Personnel/ Middle Army/JGSDF (Col.)

Commandant of Chemical School and Commander of Camp Omiya (MG)

Retired (MG)

Adviser at Teikoku Sen-I Co., Ltd.

(2013- also appointed as Technical Adviser to Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Agency/Ministry of Defense)

Dr. Joel C. Rynes is the Assistant Director for Transformational and Applied Research and the Lead Technical Authority of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He received his Senior Executive Service career appointment on 5 June 2011. In this role he leads an aggressive research and development program to fill gaps in the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture and to dramatically improve the performance and reduce the operational burden of nuclear and radiological detection and technical forensics technologies. Prior to this assignment, Dr. Rynes was a DNDO Program Manager responsible for developing the next generation radiography and active interrogation technology to detect special nuclear material.

From 1999 to 2006, Dr. Rynes was a Program Manager at General Dynamics where he led several programs in support of nuclear treaty monitoring. These programs included the development, installation, and maintenance of particulate and gas nuclear sensors in the global International Monitoring System network and the data center analysis, visualization, and reporting software for the U.S. National Data Center and the International Data Centre in Austria. Prior to General Dynamics, Dr. Rynes was a scientist on the Pulsed Fast Neutron Analysis cargo inspection system program at SAIC. Here he developed a dual particle neutron and gamma-ray radiography system, developed automated decision algorithms to find contraband in cargo, and was the chief accelerator technician.

Dr. Rynes has a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. His dissertation was titled "Gamma-ray and Neutron Radiography for a Pulsed Fast Neutron Analysis Cargo Inspection System." Dr. Rynes is a Project Management Professional (PMP) as certified by the Project Management Institute.

Academic/Qualification Background

Law Degree- LLb (Hons) 2002
Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) 2011
Qualified Teacher (Learning & Skills) Status, UK 2011- Present
Prince 2 R Project Management Practitioner

Nigel is a former UK Police Officer with 26 years' experience in law enforcement, specialising in the preparation for, and response to, CBRN Terrorist events from 2009 - 2015 when Nigel worked in various roles, including Head of Training and International Programme Manager at the UK Police National CBRN Centre.

Nigel retired from the UK Police Service in August 2015 and took a position as Team Leader for EU CBRN Centres of Excellence Project 46, managing a team of experts responsible for the implementation of a 3-year CBRN project.

Nigel has worked with the IAEA on a number of projects, including the development of guidance on Developing a National Framework for Managing the Response to Nuclear Security Events and the development of National Response Plans for Nuclear Security Events. Nigel is also responsible for the delivery of nuclear security training for countries who are planning to host Major Public Events. Nigel took up his post as Senior Nuclear Security Officer with IAEA MORC Section in May this year.

Ms. Naoko Noro is the chief instructor of nuclear security training courses at the Integrated Support Center for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (ISCN/JAEA). ISCN is Japan's Center of Excellence on nuclear security. Her expertise includes nuclear security, counter-terrorism and international security.

Before joining ISCN, Ms. Naoko Noro was an Associate Fellow at Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society, Japan Science and Technology Agency (RISTEX/JST), Tokyo, Japan. At RISTX, she conducted research on counter-terrorism. She also managed a project on Science and Technology for Security and contributed to forge international /domestic network among security community and S&T community.

Ms. Noro earned a B.A. (Hon.) in Political Science at the Hunter College of the City University of New York, and an M.A. in Security Policy Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.

B.Sc. (Physics), University of Calicut, India

One Year Health Physics Stipendiary Trainee, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, India

M.Sc. (Physics), University of Calicut, India

Ph.D. (Physics), University of Madras, India

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Texas A&M University, (TAMU), USA

Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering, TAMU-NUEN

Director, Nuclear Security Science & Policy Institute (NSSPI), TAMU

Research Assistant Professor, TAMU-NUEN

Interim Director, NSSPI

Associate Director, NSSPI

Visiting Assistant Professor, TAMU-NUEN

Research Scientist, NSSPI

Scientific Officer, AERB, Mumbai and Kalpakkam, India

Scientific Assistant, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), Mumbai, India

　Dr. Chirayath is the director of Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute (NSSPI) and also serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is an expert in the area of nuclear safety, security and safeguards research and education. He teaches courses on nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear material safeguards, nuclear security and Monte Carlo radiation transport. His research interests include safeguards approaches for nuclear fuel cycle, proliferation resistance quantification and analysis, nuclear forensics, nuclear security insider threat analysis, fast breeder reactor analysis and small modular reactor neutronics coupling with thermal hydraulics. In NSSPI he manages projects funded by USDHS (Domestic Nuclear Detection Office), USDOE (National Nuclear Security Administration and Nuclear Energy), USDOS (Partnership for Nuclear Security) and nuclear utility companies. He has over 125 technical publications in refereed journals (32) and national/international conference proceedings (98) with over 150 citations.

　Dr. Phongphaeth Pengvanich is the Department Head of Faculty of Engineering at Chulalongkorn University of Thailand from January 2017. Mr. Pengvanich started his career at Chulalongkorn University in 2008, and since then, he has been served as the lecturer to provide lectures such as advance mathematics in nuclear technology, introduction to nuclear security, and physical protection of nuclear and radiological facilities. His research experiences include theoretical modeling and simulation for high power microwave and millimeter wave sources, specifically magnetrons, klystrons, and traveling wave amplifiers; general theory of oscillators; nuclear nonproliferation; and nuclear security.

Ph.D (Nuclear Engineering), University of Michigan

M.Sc. (Nuclear Engineering), University of Michigan

B.Sc. in Engineering (Nuclear Engineering), University of Michigan

Faculty of Engineering of Chulalongkorn University

Department Head,

Assistant Dean for Communication and International Affairs

Lecturer

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Graduate Student Instructor

Graduate Student Research Assistant

　Man-Sung Yim is Professor of the Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, Dean of KUSTAR-KAIST Institute, and Director of Nuclear Nonproliferation Education and Research Center (NEREC) at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Formerly, he was a senior researcher/researcher at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, lecturer at MIT, Associate/Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University, a joint faculty between Oak Ridge National Lab and NC State University, and Sam Nunn International Security Fellow at the Same Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech. Dr. Yim served on the North Carolina Science Advisory Board on Toxic Air Pollutants, Nuclear Nonproliferation External Steering Committee at Idaho National Laboratory, Advisory Committee for Korean Nuclear Safety and Security Commission, and Advisory Committee for Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dr. Yim's research areas include nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear waste management, nuclear safety and nuclear nonproliferation. Dr. Yim received B.S. and M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Seoul National University and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from University of Cincinnati through Fulbright Scholarship. He also received master of science (S.M.) and doctor of science (Sc.D.) in Environmental Health Science from Harvard University. He is a member of Editorial Advisory Board of Progress in Nuclear Energy and International Journal of Nuclear Security.